Gassco Says Kaarstoe Natural-Gas Exports Rising After Fault

Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Gassco AS, operator of Norway’s
natural-gas pipelines, said a flaring issue at its Kaarstoe
plant has been solved and gas exports are increasing.

“We are now ramping up, and it will take some time till we
are back to normal capacity,” Lisbet Kallevik, a spokeswoman
for Bygnes, Norway-based Gassco, said today in an e-mail.

Kaarstoe can process as much as 88 million cubic meters of
gas a day and send it via sub-sea pipelines to markets in
mainland Europe as well as the U.K. Flaring is the burning off
of unwanted gas for safety or other reasons.

Norway is the biggest foreign gas supplier to the U.K. and
the second-biggest supplier to Europe after Russia.